In the end, Jim refused to take the protection of trolls in front of the Senate arguing that they were dangerous animals, even citing a list of incidents involving trolls, and that the protection of the citizens was the top priority.

In the months after, with incidents between humans and trolls occuring more and more as mankind spread across the Long Earth, the trolls came to the decision that they had to withdraw from the Earth with humans and drifted away.[5][6]

By September 2040, after Joshua and Bill travelled across the Long Earth to find the trolls and apologize in the name of mankind, the trolls are slowly coming back on the Low Earths and Jim is suddenly a supporter of the troll cause and always have been.[7]